Sandy (given name)
Sandy is a popular unisex given name. The male version can be a diminutive of Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandipan, Sandeep, Sanford, Santiago, etc., while the female version can be a diminutive for Sandra or, less commonly, Alexandra, Alisande, and Cassandra. Female spelling variations include Sandi and Sandie.
Notable people named Sandy include:Men
- Sandy Alderson, American baseball executive
- Sandy Allan, Scottish footballer
- Sandy Alomar Jr., American baseball player
- Sandy Alomar Sr., American baseball player
- Sandy Amorós, Major League Baseball player from Cuba
- Sandy Becker, American actor and television host
- Sandy Brown , Scottish jazz clarinetist
- Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist
- Sandy Collins , Canadian politician
- Sandy Dvore, American artist
- Sandy Frank, American television producer
- Sandy Gall, Scottish journalist and broadcaster
- Sandy Gunn, British Second World War pilot and prisoner of war executed for participating in the "Great Escape"
- Sandy Hollway, Australian public servant
- Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer
- Sandy Koufax, American Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher
- Sandy Lyle, Scottish golfer
- Alexander MacAra, British epidemiologist
- Sandy Mitchell, pseudonym of British writer Alex Stewart
- Sandy Nelson, American rock drummer
- Sandy Nelson Australian footballer
- Alexander Patch, US Army general in World War II
- Sandy Powell , British comedian
- Sandy Rass, British songwriter and musical theatre star
- Sandy Rothman, American bluegrass musician and producer
- Sandy Sandberg, American football player
- Sandy Satullo, II, American former NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Sandy Smith, Scottish visual artist
- Sandy Tatum, American attorney and golf administrator
- Sandy Wollaston, British explorer
- Sandy Woodward, nickname of British Admiral John Woodward
Women
- Sandy Abi Elias, Lebanese-British footballer
- Sandy Chambers, British singer
- Sandy Dennis, American actress
- Sandy Denny, British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Descher, American actress
- Sandy Dillon, American singer and songwriter
- Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress
- Sandy Green, British singer and songwriter
- Sandy Johnson, American model and actress
- Sandy Lam, Hong Kong singer
- Sandy Leah Lima, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress
- Sandy Mölling, German singer
- Sandy Powell
- Sandy Ratcliff, English actress
- Sandie Shaw, English singer
- Sandy Shaw , American writer on health
- Sandy Shaw , Canadian politician
- Sandy Schreier, American fashion historian and collector
- Sandi Thom, Scottish singer-songwriter
- Sandi Toksvig, British-Danish comedian, writer, actor, presenter and producer
- Sandy Verschoor, an Aussie Dutch politician and current mayor
- Sandy West, American musician, drummer of The Runaways
Fictional characters
- Sandy, half of Julian and Sandy in the British radio comedy Round the Horne
- Sandy, Little Orphan Annie's dog
- Sandy, in Mark Twain's novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- Sandy, Sodapop's ex-girlfriend in the 1967 novel The Outsiders
- Sandy, a fictional sandman by Arthur Beddard in Kidsongs: Good Night, Sleep Tight
- Sandy, a character in the Japanese television series Monkey based on Journey to the West
- Sandy Bachman, a character in season 4 of the American television drama series Homeland
- Sandy Brown, from the Japanese anime The Noozles
- Sandy Cheeks, in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cohen, in the TV series The OC, played by Peter Gallagher
- Sandy Hawkins, a DC Comics superhero
- Sandy Olsson, in the 1978 musical film Grease
- Sandy Ricks, in the 1963 film Flipper
- Sandy Sunshine, in the video games Mugen Souls and Mugen Souls Z
- Sandy Thomas, in the British soap opera Emmerdale
- Alexander Wilson, nicknamed "Sandy", in the TV series Shetland
- Sha Wujing, in the Chinese epic Journey to the West
